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NEW DELHI: India on Thursday lamented the lack of truly representative and democratic nature of the existing systems of internet governance, including the management of critical internet resources, and called for cyber jurisprudence to ensure security of the cyberspace. Vinay Kwatra, joint secretary at Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Indian representative, said this at the April 23-24 Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, also called the NETmundial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

NEW DELHI: India today lamented the lack of truly representative and democratic nature of the existing systems of Internet governance including the management of critical Internet resources and called for cyber-jurisprudence to ensure security of the cyberspace. This was stated by Vinay Kwatra , Joint Secretary at MEA and Indian representative April 23-24 Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, also referred as NETmundial, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

NEW DELHI: India has emerged as the sixth most frequently attacked country with cybercriminals duping people and corporates across platforms like social media, emails and online games, security software maker Kaspersky said. According to Kaspersky Lab, about 39.6 million users faced phishing attacks in 2013, an increase of 2.32 per cent from the previous year. Phishing involves sending emails purporting to be from reputable firms to unsuspecting individuals and also corporate entities to influence them in revealing personal and financial information like passwords, credit card numbers, etc. India (4.08 per cent)

NEW DELHI: Information Technology Act of India , the world's second most populous country and behind only the US and China in Internet users, is "ill-suited" to deal with social media and user-generated content, a report by Global Network Initiative (GNI) said today. The report, Closing the Gap: Indian Online Intermediaries and a Liability System Not Yet Fit for Purpose, prepared by trade-related affairs consultancy Copenhagen Economics said that online platforms that support user-generated content can contribute about Rs 2.49 lakh crore to India's GDP by 2015.

SAN FRANCISCO: Dropbox Inc is being positioned as the next internet sensation after Facebook and Twitter. But the online storage provider said it has no immediate plans to open an office in India, one of the fastest growing internet markets in the world. The San Francisco-based company said it would rather partner with Indian mobile service providers and web companies that can take Dropbox to the country's rapidly growing smartphone and internet user base. "For us it doesn't make sense to have a local sales team in the short term, but we'll work through partners," Sujay Jaswa, vice-president and business development head at Dropbox, told ET at the company's San Francisco headquarters.

NEW DELHI: Google India will host a two-day Hackathon and workshop in Bangalore on February 21-22 focused on designing and creating Android applications in Indian languages. The event, which is expected to see about 100 developers participating, is open to both amateur and professional developers. The aim is to promote regional languages and develop applications for Internet users who communicate and understand only their native language with a view to encouraging more users to come online, Google said in a statement.

NEW DELHI: With more and more people accessing the Web through mobile phones, the Internet user base in the country is projected to touch 243 million by June 2014, a year-on-year growth of 28 per cent. According to the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the Internet user base in the country stood at 190 million at the end of June, 2013. For the whole year 2013, the Internet user base grew 42 per cent to 213 million, from 150 million in 2012. Of the total user base, mobile Internet users accounted for 130 million in 2013, a growth of about 92 per cent from 68 million in 2012.

WASHINGTON: The humble .com is set to receive some competition from a new set of unusual web addresses such as .guru and .singles! Internet users will now be able to register in targeted and specific domains ending in .guru, .bike, .singles, .plumbing and .clothing among others as a US company is offering a wave of new Web addresses. Donuts Inc will kick off the general availability period for seven new Internet domain names, marking the beginning of a new era for the Internet in which users will have unprecedented choice in how they identify and brand themselves online.

NEW DELHI: The number of users accessing the web on their mobile handsets in India is expected to reach 155 million by March this year, according to the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). This number is further expected to grow to 185 million by June, 2014. "The number of mobile internet users is going to reach 155 million in India by the end of March 2014, and 185 million by June 2014, maintaining a quarter-on-quarter growth of 20 per cent," a report by IAMAI and IMRB International said.

MUMBAI: Someone is quietly profiling your every move online: snooping around what you tweet or scribble on FB or even scanning your emails to friends and family. If that sounds suspiciously close to stalking, marketers have a more polite name for the practice: mapping. While not a new phenomenon in India, it has become more critical given the growing importance of social media marketing and increasing numbers of internet users. Chances are it could intensify in 2014. Marketers, who were earlier scratching the surface of social media marketing, are now peeling back the layers for a more nuanced understanding of people and their behaviour on the internet.